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- 2/13/2020
'Talking' prescription labels coming to pharmacies across Canada
Lawtons Drugs, Sobeys, Safeway, Thrifty Foods, Foodland, FreshCo and some IGA pharmacies soon to offer service for blind or partially sighted patients - 2/13/2020
Ontario physicians adjust to new CPSO referral guidelines
Some specialists feel the new policy, which requires them to respond quickly and to call patients, is less efficient and puts a strain on their office resources - 2/13/2020
N.B. pharmacy offers reusable glass vials for prescriptions
Bathurst pharmacist said amount of plastic used at pharmacy is “incredible” - 2/13/2020
1,700 Chinese healthcare workers affected by coronavirus, 6 dead
Medical workers account for about 3.8% of confirmed cases - 2/12/2020
Japan confirms 12 Canadians on cruise ship infected with novel coronavirus
The 12 Canadians who contracted the virus on board the ship have been moved to Japanese health facilities, and at least three require hospitalization - 2/12/2020
MAiD: Enlighted empathy or misguided myopia?
If mentally ill patients seek MAiD, there is simply no way to know for sure whether they satisfy the 'irremediability' criterion - 2/12/2020
Federal NDP seeks provincial support for national pharmacare plan
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh wrote to every premier in Canada to outline the party's plan and ask for their buy-in - 2/12/2020
Coronavirus: The latest disease to fuel mistrust, fear and racism
Scapegoating is often used to distract from the underlying economic and political decisions that produced vulnerability to disease - 2/12/2020
Helping hospital patients sleep a new priority for researchers
A recent study has highlighted some of the avoidable disruptions that are keeping patients up at night